But if the euro, the single currency adopted by 12 European nations, gains credibility, it could well become a competing reserve currency.
And even if the project never comes to pass, Brooklyn, which in Harvey Lichtenstein's boyhood was the world's capital of the "white ethnic," has already become a competing center of cool, both among young people and artists.
With the tsunami of e-books where traditional and self-published writers are beefing up reading choices to astounding levels, the book business has become a competing stew of infinite taste sensations that are offered up increasingly sliced and diced, and composed for an increasing segmented reading public.
James's version explores what happens when a tiny island community seeking its postcolonial identity becomes a hotbed of competing power plays, social inequality, gang violence and religious division – and when one sole cultural figure bears the symbolic weight of all of it.
What is known about Gillis, however, is that he became an Olympian, competing at the Summer Games the first time they were held in London, in 1908 — four years after Gillis's hammer struck Christian Koehler.
Interventions that increase the perceived benefit of testing are likely to be a successful approach, because they will help HIV testing become an attractive competing priority compared with usual survival tasks.
The sample size in this study is small as the study was prematurely discontinued when data became available from a competing study that showed no improved effectiveness of VIP compared with BEP.
"When you've got that coupled with venture capital money that says, 'Here's $50m, we don't want you to make a profit for eight years, go and build a business', that becomes a challenging thing to compete with and I think that's the real challenge to us".
According to Kuhn in Structure, a loosely characterized group of activities, often consisting of competing schools, becomes a mature science when one or more concrete problem solutions provide models for what good research is (or can be) in that domain.
This time, however, the park has become a venue where competing ideas, groups and vendors vie for attention but somehow get along.
